{"id":43515,"date":"2015-10-15T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T20:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=43515"},"modified":"2015-10-15T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T20:04:14","slug":"ex-army-chief-sarath-fonsekas-ex-son-in-law-danuna-tilakaratne-acquitted-by-colombo-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=43515","title":{"rendered":"Ex &#8211; Army Chief Sarath Fonseka&#8217;s ex- son in law Danuna Tilakaratne Acquitted by Colombo High Court."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Chitra Weerarathne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Colombo High Court Judge Devika De Silva Tennekoon yesterday acquitted Danuna Tilakaratne of the Charge of submitting forged documents stating that he and two others were the local agents in Sri Lanka for British Borneo Private Limited of Australia to provide equipment to the Sri Lanka Army.<\/p>\n<p> Danuna after absconding for five years surrendered on Dec. 19, 2014 through his lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Counsel Asela Rekawa yesterday submitted to the Court that the Army officers who gave evidence had said that the Army awarded tenders only on documents prepared by the Army. On that basis, Tilakeratne ought to be acquitted. The prosecution had failed to provide evidence beyond reasonable doubt that Tillakaratne was at fault.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Court consequently acquitted Danuna Tilakaratne. Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, who too was indicted ,was discharged previously.<\/p>\n<p>Another accused person, Wellington De Hoedt had also been released.<\/p>\n<p> Ananda Wijesekera, President\u2019s Counsel appeared with Asela Rakawa, Sajith Jayewardene and Kosala Jayakody for Tilakaratne.<\/p>\n<p>Senior State Counsel Mardawa Tennekoon appeared for the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton43515\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D43515&amp;text=Ex%20%26%238211%3B%20Army%20Chief%20Sarath%20Fonseka%26%238217%3Bs%20ex-%20son%20in%20law%20Danuna%20Tilakaratne%20Acquitted%20by%20Colombo%20High%20Court.&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chitra Weerarathne The Colombo High Court Judge Devika De Silva Tennekoon yesterday acquitted Danuna Tilakaratne of the Charge of submitting forged documents stating that he and two others were the local agents in Sri Lanka for British Borneo Private Limited of Australia to provide equipment to the Sri Lanka Army. Danuna after absconding for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=43515\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Ex &#8211; Army Chief Sarath Fonseka&#8217;s ex- son in law Danuna Tilakaratne Acquitted by Colombo High Court.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43516,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43515\/revisions\/43516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}